Ryan Carson from Carson Systems did double duty at the Future of Web Apps: organizer and presenter. My wrap up will have some comments on the overall event. As presenter, Ryan was engaging and authentic, openly sharing lessons learned from
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Future of Web Apps - Ryan Carson
Written by Allen Stern - September 15, 2006
Ryan Carson, owner of Amigo and DropSend and also Summit organizer presented, "14 things I wish I'd known before building a web app". I found his discussion to be clear and well presented. I am certain he could have spoke for 90-120 minutes about the items he listed. Here are the 14 items he presented:
- Work with people in the same timezone (otherwise you will always be on the phone all day/night)
- One user database (otherwise you will be in user hell)
- One ecommerce system (same as #2)
- Don't have your coder do the xhtml/css (then he/she can't focus on the programming)
- Obsess about your website copy (whats impt to visitors )
- Work with a top notch hardware partner
- Don't cut corners
- Measure and measure more
- You are not done when you launch
- Tea-spoons (what he was saying is that after you focus on all the big items, there will still be lots of loose ends)
- Four tips merged into one - provide logos and details for the press, use a monthly csv for invoices, add an about us page, make contact easy
- add tons of stuff to your faq and support pages
- Be nice to your nasty customers
- Tips from the pros - here Ryan provided some quotes from other speakers at the conference
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